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Alonso with a car that qualify 5th but has a great low degradation on race could do wonders, similar to 2012, and this AM looks much better and planted that 2012 Ferrari. With his great starts and in control of multiple strategies possibilities that low degradation will allow him and a bit of luck on reliability ( hopefully is not as unlucky as last few years on this area). He can easily be on podiums and scoring constantly, Challenging the top 3. I think the car and team so far has been praised by Newey, Horner and Toto, so they might be up there otherwise why this 3 would bother to mention them at all. That's why the hype. I think, in my opinion they might be ahead of Mercedes this weekend but behind of Ferrari and Redbull, could they sustain over the whole season? that's the real challenge and question. But if they want to go for wins on next few years is the task in hand.KimiRai wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 19:50This is exactly one thing I'm worried about. In fact it feels similar to last year's Aston. Having that great tyre deg might mean difficulty getting heat into the tyres for qualifying.Dextercitox wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 18:55Having that low degradation is a very very good sign ( and specially Alo can take good advantage of that in race strategies ) but perhaps it can hurt in Qualy if you can not put enough heat in the tyres ...
Second thing I'm worried about: pit stops. They already botched one in testing pretty badly and It could happen again considering it's a young team and there will be pressure if Aston really performs well during the race.
Which is all the more ominous isn't it!
If Lance is indeed out for 2-3 races; why team didn’t consider Seb over Filipe.organic wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 22:41https://racingnews365.com/more-details- ... -accident/
This article quotes a source which alleges that 'light' surgery could rule out stroll for 1-2 races
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Just wish this year willy old fox Alonso gets car to be in the hunt. I promise that by the end of season you will hate him more but as F1 fan you will get races to remember forever. Just thinking about Alonso going against verstappen gives me goosebumps. He might teach verstappen some clean racing tactics as well.
behave.
Spot on !Dextercitox wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 18:55Just my two cents :
I've watching the race sim last Saturday and like a lot of us, comparing with Ferrari because Sainz goes out just a little bit after. What we know is that AM has made the full race distance and Barhain is one of those tracks where you need high fuel load ( is not Monaco or Singapur ).
Fernando made 57 laps, Carlos for whatever reason made only 37 both with quick tyre changes and no fuel refill. Degradation in the Ferrari didn't look good at all and looks pretty good in the AM, that's a fact.
In the second stint Alo was in C1 and Carlos in C2 and that quick change to C1 in Ferrari perhaps was because the lap times with the C1 in the AM was quite consistent, and perhaps ( again ) they want to check if the C1 was the right tyre .
Let's suppose, both cars start with a "race fuel load for 57 laps", carlos put the C1 with 27 laps made, starting in 37.3 laptime, some laps later he made 36.8 before pit in, and yes, he made some 37's before but you know, you can add more perhaps here, traffic, engine map tests, etc ... And Alo in those same laps, was clearly slower ( also he have more laps on the tyres )...
Too much perhaps, and the reality is that we have only partial data. But what we cant ignore, is that the race sim in the AM looks promising and the car behaviour in the track looks quite well, braking seems very good, turning in slow corners and traction also seems very good, but medium and high speed corners not that much.
The train of hype is difficult to stop, I really like the interview to Mike Krack because we can't forget this year target : "be the best of the rest".
We will have to wait not only this first race, we have to wait at least 3 races to see each car and where we are. Having that low degradation is a very very good sign ( and specially Alo can take good advantage of that in race strategies ) but perhaps it can hurt in Qualy if you can not put enough heat in the tyres ...
We dont know where Mercedes are, we dont know if Ferrari is struggling that much with degradation, and Alpine has been hiding with high fuel loads too. The only thing we know is that RedBull looks 3 steps in front of everybody.
Anyway, the situation looks quite good for this year target, repeat with me "be the best of the rest", if anytime AM can battle with Mercedes or Ferrari in race trim, it will be an incredible step forward for the team this year.
Of course i will love to be wrong and see AM being third in the next week race, but honestly is not what I think. If that's the case, I will pay for my seat in the hype train.
What's the target for this year ??
Although I would love to see Seb against Alfonso...it is in my point of view completely out of question:NAPI10 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 01:46If Lance is indeed out for 2-3 races; why team didn’t consider Seb over Filipe.organic wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 22:41https://racingnews365.com/more-details- ... -accident/
This article quotes a source which alleges that 'light' surgery could rule out stroll for 1-2 races
So he will be backu by Baku
I am happy for Filipe & it’s a right thing to do but the thought of having 2 world champions driving ur car is tooooo tempting.
Seb has driven last year's car so his technical feedback will be extremely valuable, Alonso won’t mind since it’s a temporary arrangement and team gets a solid & reliable driver to represent a competitive car.
Unless Seb doesn’t want to return or both parted on a bitter note; why not go for him?
I'm agree.Bisonas wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 09:47Alonso not only managed to keep lowering his delta, progressively improving times,but it looked to me capable of putting a series of Delta negative times when ever he wanted to, in all of his stints. He was completely in control of tire deg, meaning he could easily extend if wanted to or needed to, on both C3 and C1 stints.
Overall i think he could have done the race sim even faster. He chose to follow a specific tire management plan and chose to follow specific delta times, but the reality is that we don't really know, how fast he could run the race sim because we never saw his tires and his times declining in order to say, ok, that's the actual limit of the tire.
It was a joy to watch really. That consistency and control of tire deg was astonishing.